Anxiety Quote by Emily Susan Rapp

When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we…

— Nido R Qubein

“The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed…

— Neal Shusterman

Fear in the mind causes stress in the body.

— Mark Driscoll

Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.

— Jean Shinoda Bolen

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods…

— Liz Miller

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because…

— David Seabury

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake…

— Ayn Rand

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

— Brené Brown

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

— Alicia Keys

Being ill-prepared and unequipped to deal with life's inevitable challenges leaves us vulnerable to the dangerous effects of stress.

— Amy Morin

“sometimes think of people’s personalities as the negative space around their insecurities. Afraid of intimacy? Cultivate aloofness. Feel invisible? Laugh loud and often. Drink…

— Lindy West